Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

It was reported that when the Kihei Community Association( KCA) was established over a half century ago, the two major community concerns were water and roads, and most agree those concerns have not changed. What is changing is our water and our growth. It was just reported April had record lack of rainfall on Maui, while South [...]

UPDATE  Last evening’s (5/9/13) meeting seemed to have just a few residents in the small audience, after you subtracted the various government employees who participated. Read a professional report of this meeting in the Maui News.  http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/572598/Ammo-debris-found-during-bombing-site-investigation.html?nav=10   Do you know that just off the leeward coast of Maui within our Ahihi-Kina’u Reserve in South Maui, there [...]

No, it was not a  KCA  public meeting on Tuesday (4/30/13) evening at the Kihei Community Center, but with nearly half of the all volunteer KCA BOD, some committee and numerous general members in attendance and participating, totaling probably half of the 40 in attendance, KCA’s voice was a strong one. But it was a Maui [...]

This morning (4/26/13) our Board of Directors met with the owner’s representative of the notorious “Mega Mall” area mauka of the Pi’ilani Hwy at Kaonoulu in North Kihei. The BOD was invited to meet with Charlie Jencks and his assistant Tom Blackburn Rodriguez to discuss changes there. KCA was advised that Eclipse Development Group of Irvine, [...]

UPDATE * APR 18,2013  PUBLIC MEETING    MECO has announced a meeting on Tuesday 4/30/13 from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Kihei Community Center 303 E Lipoa St concerning the “proposed South Maui Reliability Projects,” including the transmission line from Maalaea across Kihei and the Kamali’i and Kaonoulu substations. For more information, call 244-2015 DEC 14, 2011   An [...]

We did it Kihei! $130 Million for Kihei High School. The Kihei Community Association has been advocating  for a full-service DOE High School for our community for decades. The Kihei High School Action Team (A KCA sub-committee) is happy to report that we have secured the financing to move forward. The House and Senate money [...]

We wish to extend a big mahalo  to the Kihei Sunrise Rotary Club for the invitation to address its April 10 weekly meeting to offer a report on our Community Association. Our President Mike Moran addressed a varied group of Rotarians, including several visiting from numerous clubs around the country. JoAnne Laird Larry Laird Larry Laird [...]

An audience of about 60 indicated much interest in how South Maui can recover from poor or even lack of planning for the past decades in our community at the general membership meeting last evening (4/16/13). Viewing and listening to George Rixey’s presentation on concepts he formulated in the 90′s elicited questions why they were [...]

The Design Review Committee began the month (4/2/13) in a meeting coordinated by Mike Munekiyo of Munekiyo & Hiraga for McDonald’s Corporate representatives, including construction manager Sam Chee. from Honolulu. The meeting was to advise that the restaurant chain is “re-branding” their structures nationwide, including this one in central Kihei on South Kihei Road makai, [...]

About half on the 2013 KCA directors were on hand Friday evening (4/5/13) for a visual presentation by our own Daniel Kanahele, Dr Lee Altenberg, and Lucienne De ‘naie, concerning the proposed Honualua development, previously called Wailea 670, supposedly for the  670 acreage of the project, but reports proposed outline exceeds that already. The golf [...]